“Playmate of the Year” by Zebrahead

"Playmate of the Year" is the title track of Zebrahead's third album, which Columbia put out on August 22, 2000, and it was the lead single that summer, picking up radio play around the world. The title points straight at the cover girl, Jodi Ann Paterson, a Playboy Playmate in 1999 who was named Playmate of the Year in 2000. Exclaim! pegged the album as Limp Bizkit's rapped punk crossed with Lit's pop-punk, and here Ali Tabatabaee and Justin Mauriello both sing, Mauriello and Greg Bergdorf play guitar and Ben Osmundson plays bass; the writing credit is split five ways, Ed Udhus included.

Howard Benson produced and Chris Lord-Alge mixed. The video came in censored and uncensored cuts: the band wakes up in their apartment to the doorbell and a crowd of women at the door, and the fun starts from there.

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